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JehutyRunner
Banned
At this point, I usually avoid DLC unless I know it offers something substantial. And even then, most of the time, it's only usually story stuff. And even then, I also avoid season passes (with one exception, which I'll get to).
I don't buy map packs anymore, I've never bought anything on a cosmetic sense. Any DLC I buy is, for the most part, story-driven and even then, it has go to so far as interest me and offer something of meaningful value to the game and its story.
For me, my top three DLCs of all time are story-driven stuff, packs that flesh out each other game, whether it last for 90 minutes to as far out as 20 hours or so.
(No particular order)
+ Mass Effect 3: Citadel
+ The Last of Us: Left Behind
+ Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
That being said, I won't look past DLC that offers incredible value to a game and extends its longevity, even if it isn't story. In this instance, the DriveClub season pass plus Bikes and the Mario Kart 8 stuff is what I mean here.
And I think DriveClub was the best season pass I put money into. It was super cheap when I bought it, but I very much got a lot of money out of it and thensome. Just fantastic.
I don't buy map packs anymore, I've never bought anything on a cosmetic sense. Any DLC I buy is, for the most part, story-driven and even then, it has go to so far as interest me and offer something of meaningful value to the game and its story.
For me, my top three DLCs of all time are story-driven stuff, packs that flesh out each other game, whether it last for 90 minutes to as far out as 20 hours or so.
(No particular order)
+ Mass Effect 3: Citadel
+ The Last of Us: Left Behind
+ Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
That being said, I won't look past DLC that offers incredible value to a game and extends its longevity, even if it isn't story. In this instance, the DriveClub season pass plus Bikes and the Mario Kart 8 stuff is what I mean here.
And I think DriveClub was the best season pass I put money into. It was super cheap when I bought it, but I very much got a lot of money out of it and thensome. Just fantastic.
Snkfanatic
Banned
I would say either the Mario Kart 8 DLC or Bloodborne Old Hunters.
DrunkShogun
Member
Bioshock Minervas Den, Bloodborne Old hunter dlc and Dark souls 1 artorias dlc. All these dlc share the same trend of adding lore to the main game as well as introducing new content rather than recycle old content. I expect witcher 3 dlc to join this rank once the 2nd dlc comes out and i decided to play both dlc.
koopathecat
Member
Both sunset overdrive dlcs are awesome. Wee bit short on the mission side but new guns, clothing, challanges (some of them are really fun) and a healthy amount of achievements.
Well worth the money
Well worth the money
BEST
DLC
EVER
Yeah, I'm going to have to vote for this.
This is one of my choices. Loved that DLC, it's incredibly well done. I enjoyed "young" Ellie's parts more than the "old" ones, because they didn't feature combat and instead focused on the relationship between her and Riley, but the latter isn't bad at all either (I did think the final encounter was a bit too long, and the second wave felt unnecessary).
The other one is Overlord for Mass Effect 2. It brings back the exploration from the first game, albeit on a different vehicle, and it has a horror vibe which feels great. I remember the story also being really good.
"Calling" from The World Ends With You is a fantastic song, indeed, and I'd like to see more stuff from that game.
Klart
Member
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
My top DLCs are (no order):
Old World Blues - Fallout New Vegas. Was one of the few DLCs that I felt rivaled the main game.
Witcher 3 - Heart of Stone A true masterpiece and one of the best $10 values ever. I imagine that when combined with Blood and Wine the $25 for both expansions will be amongst the best ever in gamin.
Bioshock Infinite - both Rapture DLCs
Bioshock 2 - Minervas Den
Dishonred - Daud DLC
I know I am missing a few
Old World Blues - Fallout New Vegas. Was one of the few DLCs that I felt rivaled the main game.
Witcher 3 - Heart of Stone A true masterpiece and one of the best $10 values ever. I imagine that when combined with Blood and Wine the $25 for both expansions will be amongst the best ever in gamin.
Bioshock Infinite - both Rapture DLCs
Bioshock 2 - Minervas Den
Dishonred - Daud DLC
I know I am missing a few
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
BEST
DLC
EVER
Doesn't count. Game was available as a stand alone.
Shivering Isles is objectively the best piece of DLC ever created and I won't hear otherwise from any of you disgusting heathens out there.
All of the Smash 4 DLC characters are really good as well. Same with the stages. Not-so-much the Mii costume pieces, except for the Rathalos armor because yay Monster Hunter.
All of the Smash 4 DLC characters are really good as well. Same with the stages. Not-so-much the Mii costume pieces, except for the Rathalos armor because yay Monster Hunter.
SOME-MIST
Member
definitely this. many times the black label versions being superior to vanilla.
Magic Mushroom
Member
This. It also makes the main game even better thanks to all the new tools (and there are a lot of them).
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
My favorite DLC lately has been the expansion packs to The Elder Scrolls Online. They each add a huge amount of content to the game such as new factions (Thieve's Guild), locations (Hrothgar), new passive skill trees, new equipment, etc.
The game is already vast and has a huge number of things to do, but I feel like the DLC really fleshes the game out and makes it feel more like an Elder Scrolls game. Usually when I play a single player Elder Scrolls game, I jump between faction quests pretty regularly so having them all available feels pretty natural. Additionally, the DLC can be played at any time and the game automatically normalizes your equipment (and to a lesser extent, your experience level) so you don't need a high level character to play the new content.
Later this month the Dark Brotherhood DLC is coming out and I'm pretty excited for it.
The game is already vast and has a huge number of things to do, but I feel like the DLC really fleshes the game out and makes it feel more like an Elder Scrolls game. Usually when I play a single player Elder Scrolls game, I jump between faction quests pretty regularly so having them all available feels pretty natural. Additionally, the DLC can be played at any time and the game automatically normalizes your equipment (and to a lesser extent, your experience level) so you don't need a high level character to play the new content.
Later this month the Dark Brotherhood DLC is coming out and I'm pretty excited for it.
I love the idea of an MMO w/o a subscription... is there housing in the game?
How fun is it to solo the game? I likely won't play with others.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
There isn't currently player housing in the game, but it's been teased by the developers so I think it's in the works. I imagine it'll be added in a future "Hearthfire"-like DLC where you can customize your living quarters to the n-th degree.
The game is a blast to play solo (in fact, I've never actually joined a party before despite having played for almost 200 hours). There are some dungeons that require it, but (so far, at least) they've all been completely optional. It kinda sucks having quests sit in your log that you can't do without a group so watch out for that if you're a "I have to tick absolutely every box always" kinda Elder Scrolls player - or just find an impromptu group using the in-game tools and complete the group dungeons with your fellow introverts. Either that or just come back when you're much higher level, as it's possible to solo the group dungeons too.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters
TLOU: Left Behind and BB: The Old Hunters are two semi-recent examples of not just DLC done right, but the type of DLC I enjoy that expands upon a game's story in meaningful, high quality ways. In The Old Hunters' case, all of the new additions make the vanilla game feel even more refreshing and fun.
Honestly for me Artorias of the Abyss was exactly what every single DLC should strive to be. While it's not necessary for the main story of the game
all it did was further lore knowledge and provide a good challenge and cool areas.
It was nonessential, but there for those who wanted MORE gameplay and MORE story. It's perfect.
arguably I guess you could say that Manus could or was the real ultimate evil in that game
It was nonessential, but there for those who wanted MORE gameplay and MORE story. It's perfect.
Yeah, gonna echo Souls DLC. I'm playing Old Hunters right and it's really good. The bosses are rad as hell (well except one that kinda just pissed me off >>
And Cloud in Smash Bros. Shit man, it was my stupid 10 year old dream come true. He's so much fun to play too (my current main now).
And Cloud in Smash Bros. Shit man, it was my stupid 10 year old dream come true. He's so much fun to play too (my current main now).
This for sure.
Great thing about Fallen Star; it was free.
Didn't split up the player base, whilst adding a whole new experience to the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_WJ4oeG-M
Doug Heffernan
Member
Dragonborn expansion for Skyrim.
Vietnam had it's own weapons, maps, and vehicles. It felt like a completely different game.
YES
Terareflection
Member
Say what you will about the quality of the DLC themselves, but you can't help but notice a surprising amount of effort was put into them. The first two are great for their atmospheric story campaigns, and the last one is a fun battle arena. Definitely worth the $20 asking price.
Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington was incredible fun to play
The DLC songs for Theatrhythm from games outside the Final Fantasy series, specially the Bravely Default ones.
Also Nintendo blessed my Wii U with a constant stream of quality content for Smash, Mario Kart and Hyrule Warriors. Slay!
except for that one glitch in chapter 1 that make it impossible to finish it if you don't know what you are doing
The DLC songs for Theatrhythm from games outside the Final Fantasy series, specially the Bravely Default ones.
Also Nintendo blessed my Wii U with a constant stream of quality content for Smash, Mario Kart and Hyrule Warriors. Slay!
firebricks3
Member
Fallout 3 Point Lookout was phenomenal.
SoundPulse
Banned
Vietnam had it's own weapons, maps, and vehicles. It felt like a completely different game.
They also brought back the loading screen briefing things.
I miss them a lot.
But yeah, Vietnam was a great pack of DLC. It died off a bit too quickly, but it was super fun while it lasted.
mcz117chief
Member
Moogle Queen!
Fata1moose
Banned
Vietnam had it's own weapons, maps, and vehicles. It felt like a completely different game.
Forgot about this, absolutely loved the maps. Better than BF3 and 4. On 360 it had a healthy population as well, I don't recall it ever losing traction.
The Artisan
Member
lol
The Artisan
Member
i liked all the dlc in Me2 too. basically coz it was free on Ps3 